Dr Phil McGraw

We teach people how to treat us.

Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn.

Success means different things in different parts of my life, but overall if I have to define ultimately what success means – the bottom line – then for me it’s if the family is healthy and happy.

You have the duty and gift of living. You don’t have the right to sit on the sidelines–use your life and get back into the game.

A man can’t ‘just be friends’ with another woman. Period.

Take the high road, there’s a lot less traffic up there.

Every damn thing you do in this life, you have to pay for.

This morning I woke with my ear pressed between shoulder blades. Every inhale, every drum, every pump, thump of your heartbeat said one thing – home, home, home.

If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people.

Take the high road, there’s a lot less traffic up there.

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

The thing is, she’s got heart, a colossal, mesmerizing one. She gives me a green flash love, the type you are rarely lucky enough to see but when you do, your entire sky is changed forever.

I’m beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

If you really understand Zen, you can use any book, even the dictionary, because the sound of the rain needs no translation.

You generate the results in your life that you believe you deserve.

Faith, n.: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

I don’t necessarily agree with everything I say.

Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.

The love we were promised in fairy tales was never something for us to find. It has always been something for us to create.

Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I’m at home alone, I have to sleep on the sofa – I can’t face going to bed. I’m there with the TV on and all the lights on. I’m not very brave about anything in life. In tennis, yes. In everything else, not very.